Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 7.1.11
Āśraya· The supreme shelterKṛṣṇa Controls Time
“O great King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of the material and spiritual energies, who is certainly the creator of the entire cosmos, creates the time factor to allow the material energy and the living entity to act within the limits of time. Thus the Supreme Personality is never under the time factor nor under the material energy.”
What the purport teaches
- The conditioned soul and material nature act within time, but the Lord creates time. He is never subject to its actions and reactions.
- Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, controls creation, maintenance and annihilation. Even when He appears within this world, He is not limited by material time.
- The Lord’s creation is temporary, but it is not false. Whatever is created by the Supreme Truth is factual.
Try this today
Pause today and reflect on this distinction: I act within time, while Kṛṣṇa creates and controls time.
Ask yourself
Do I think of Kṛṣṇa as limited by time in the same way that I am?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
The study points, practice and question are short summaries drawn from Śrīla Prabhupāda's translation and purport. Read the full purport to go deeper.